Topic: DRUGS - on October 16, 2013 at 4:42:00 PM CEST
North America’s Largest City Moves to Legalize Pot
Legislators in Mexico City, the largest city in North America, are preparing to push through certain measures that would decriminalize and regulate the consumption of marijuana in the Mexican capital, a move that may speed up pot legalization elsewhere on the continent
Though deprived of sunlight and breathing the smog-ridden air of Mexico’s mountain capital, the marijuana plants, from a strain known as purple kush, reach 0.9 m in a brick home at a middle-class suburb. They are alimented with electric lights and kept behind closed curtains by the owner, who says he grows them to smoke himself. If police found them, he could be nailed for drug production and face a hefty prison sentence under laws designed to tackle the country’s ultraviolent cartels.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 15, 2013 at 4:32:00 PM CEST
Cannabis can CURE CANCER - cheaply and without getting you high
The non-hallucinogenic parts of cannabis seem to be potentially highly effective anti-cancer drugs, according to a new study.
“This study is a critical step in unpicking the mysteries of cannabis as a source of medicine," explains Dr Wai Liu. "The cannabinoids examined have minimal, if any, hallucinogenic side effects, and their properties as anti-cancer agents are promising.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 15, 2013 at 4:28:00 PM CEST
Denver considering $999 fine/year in jail for smoking legal cannabis in your backyard
Today at 2 p.m., marijuana activists Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente will hold a press conference decrying a new proposal that would potentially criminalize marijuana smoking in one's own home if its odor can be smelled outside it.
In a press release announcing the event (see it below), Tvert and Vicente denounce the concept as unconstitutional and charge Mayor Michael Hancock, who backs the policy, of hypocrisy by announcing it during this week's Great American Beer Festival.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 14, 2013 at 2:08:00 PM CEST
Study Shows No Evidence Medical Marijuana Increases Teen Drug Use
While marijuana use by teens has been increasing since 2005, an analysis of data from 1993 through 2009 by economists at three universities has found no evidence to link the legalization of medical marijuana to increased use of the drug among high school students.
"There is anecdotal evidence that medical marijuana is finding its way into the hands of teenagers, but there's no statistical evidence that legalization increases the probability of use," said Daniel I. Rees, a professor of economics at the University of Colorado Denver.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 13, 2013 at 5:31:00 PM CEST
Legal or not, Colorado farmers bringing in nation’s first hemp harvest since the 1950s
Southeast Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin tried an illegal crop this year. He didn’t hide it from neighbors, and he never feared law enforcement would come asking about it.
Loflin is among about two dozen Colorado farmers who raised industrial hemp, marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin that can’t be grown under federal drug law, and bringing in the nation’s first acknowledged crop in more than five decades.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 13, 2013 at 5:29:00 PM CEST
Liebes Studentenpack, bitte hört auf nackt zu kiffen!
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 11, 2013 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
2013 Amsterdam High Times Cannabis Cup: Fires Up November 24
Are you ready for the 2013 Amsterdam High Times Cannabis Cup? First cultivated back in 1987 by Steve Hager, the High Times Cannabis Cup is the EU’s marijuana aficionado main event, fired up each November in Amsterdam…
What are the dates for this year’s Cannabis Cup? The HIGH TIMES Cannabis Cup is always held in Amsterdam during the week of Thanksgiving. The 26th Cannabis Cup will be held from November 24-28, 2013.
Where will the music and the expo take place? The expo will take place at Amsterdam Roest, doubling last year’s Expo trade show space. The Historic Roest is located near Central Station in downtown Amsterdam. Night time concerts @ Melkweg.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 8, 2013 at 3:30:00 PM CEST
Silk Road: four suspected sellers of illegal drugs arrested in Britain
The new National Crime Agency (NCA) is investigating UK suspects over the online illegal drugs marketplace Silk Road.
Four men were arrested last week over their alleged role in the online marketplace, hours after the suspected creator of the site was arrested in the US, the NCA said, and other UK suspects were likely to be held in the coming weeks.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 7, 2013 at 3:16:00 PM CEST
Cannabis gegen Arthritis - tagesschau
Rifka litt an massiver Arthritis. Die Schmerzen waren so stark, dass sie nicht mehr leben wollte. Doch dann begann die 85-Jährige, Cannabis zu nehmen - und seitdem ist das Leiden weg. Ein Einzelfall? Nein, in Israel gilt Cannabis als neue Wundermedizin.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 7, 2013 at 3:15:00 PM CEST
TSA Might Allow You to Board Plane with Your Marijuana
The mile high club may soon take on a new meaning as states continue to liberalize their marijuana laws.
Although it’s a try-it-at-your-own-risk scenario, airplane passengers in certain situations are being permitted to carry marijuana on board, even if TSA agents sniff out the drugs.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 5, 2013 at 3:15:00 PM CEST
Treatment with marijuana became legal in Romania
Marijuana can be used by cancer patients to relieve pain, and today is done tests for Parkinson Alzhemeir or Tourette syndrome.
Laws 143 and 339 regulate the use of marijuana for medical purposes derivatives (dyes, resins or plant fragments). Legislative change enables Medicines Agency to agree to manufacturers wishing to market such drugs out.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 4, 2013 at 4:20:00 PM CEST
Drug trafficker killed by his own 500kg cargo of weed after it crushed him to death when he crashed car following police chase
A Brazilian drugs trafficker was killed by his own stock when he was crushed by half a ton of marijuana.
The man died after he lost control of his car and hit a tree, resulting in his stock of weed stored in the backseat shooting forward, squashing him against the wheel.
The driver was on the run from the Federal Highway police, who had taken up the chase after the smuggler refused to stop at a road block in Bataguassu, 210 miles from Campo Grande.
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